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A tale of two monasteries

Westminster and Saint-Denis in the Thirteenth Century

"A Tale of Two Monasteries" takes an unprecedented look at one of the great rivalries of the Middle Ages and offers it as a revealing lens through which to view the intertwined histories of medieval England and France. This is the first book to systematically ...

The Carolingian World

At its height, the Carolingian empire spanned a million square kilometres of western Europe - from the English Channel to central Italy and northern Spain, and from the Atlantic to the fringes of modern Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. As the largest political unit for ...

Nadie dijo nada

Carlos Pezoa Véliz (Santiago de Chile, 1879-1908) es considerado el poeta fundacional de la poesía chilena. Tras estudios regulares, con conocimientos básicos de francés, se trasladó a Valparaíso en 1902, donde colaboró con el diario La Voz del Pueblo y en 1905, establecido en Viña ...

Christian materiality

an essay on religion in Late Medieval Europe

In the period between 1150 and 1550, an increasing number of Christians in western Europe made pilgrimage to places where material objects--among them paintings, statues, relics, pieces of wood, earth, stones, and Eucharistic wafers--allegedly erupted into life by such activities as bleeding, weeping, and walking ...

The Great Chevauchée

John of Gaunt's Raid on France 1373

In 1373, John of Gaunt set off from Calais on a great raid to strike at the heart of France. Beset on all sides by French ambushes and plagued by disease and starvation, the raiders battled their way through Champagne, east of Paris, into Burgundy ...

Innovation and empire in Turkey

Sultan Selim III and the modernisation of the Ottoman Navy

Ottoman naval technology underwent a transformation under the rule of Sultan Selim III. New types of sailing warships such as two- and three-decked galleons, frigates and corvettes began to dominate the Ottoman fleet, rendering the galley-type oared ships obsolete. This period saw technological innovations such ...

Regulating the british economy, 1660-1850

This collection of chapters focuses on the regulation of the British economy in the long eighteenth century as a means to understand the synergies between political, social and economic change as Britain was transformed into a global power. Inspired by recent research on consumerism and ...

Las primaveras de Ilión

(escritos sobre arquitectura y ciudad, 1990-2010)

Los textos que componen la presente edición bajo el tituloLas primaveras de Ilión cierran el cuarteto de crónicas del acontecer de la ciudadmoderna, recogidas en tres libros anteriores del autor: La metrópoli vacía(1990), Esplendor y fragmento (1997) y La ciudad herida (2001). Son escritosque ...

Islam, modernity, and the Human Sciences

This book discloses a largely unnoticed dialogue between Muslim and Western social thought on the search for meaning and transcendence in the human sciences. The disclosure is accomplished by a comparative reading of contemporary Muslim debates on secular knowledge on the one hand, and of ...

La pinacoteca del Escorial

itinerarios y civisitudes

La pinacoteca escurialense ha sido objeto de saqueos, expolios, azarosos traslados y recuperaciones, siempre a merced de hechos políticos y bélicos. Esta obra, ofrece dentro de cada marco histórico, un análilsis de los avatares sufridos por sus extraordinarias obras de arte, mediante el estudio comparado ...

Islam and political reform in Saudi Arabia

the quest for political change and reform

This book examines the link between Islamic thought/jurisprudence on the one hand and political action on the other. It shows how reformism is deeply rooted in Islamic tradition and how Sunni scholars have become activists for change in Saudi Arabia.

El destino en imágenes

Un pasado revolucionario, múltiple denuncias de violencia y opresión, un constante velo de misterio, casi una mística de lo desconocido… En el centro de todo ello, las imágenes y su relación con el arte, con el pensamiento, con la técnica y la política. Transitando con ...

Faith and power

religion and politics in the Middle East

Bernard Lewis is recognized around the globe as one of the leading authorities on Islam. Hailed as "the world's foremost Islamic scholar" (Wall Street Journal ), as "a towering figure among experts on the culture and religion of the Muslim world" (Baltimore Sun ), and as ...

Civil society and political change in Morocco

Taking Morocco as its focus, this book looks at the political change in the country since 1990. It places particular emphasis on key topics, such as civil society, human rights and reform, as vital issues for understanding the developments in the contemporary Middle East.

Are muslims distinctive?

a look at the evidence

How, if at all, do Muslims and non-Muslims differ? The question spurs spirited discussion among people the world over, in Muslim and non-Muslim lands alike, but we still lack answers based on sound empirical evidence. This book engages a set of the biggest issues using ...

El Corán y las mujeres

una lectura de liberación

La democratización del acceso a la educación constituye sin lugar a dudas uno de los factores primordiales de desarrollo y uno de los medios con los que evolucionar hacia sociedades más justas. Si bien esto es cierto de forma general, lo es más aún en ...

La historia desde mi balcón

testigo directo de la marea árabe

Tomás Alcoverro (Barcelona, 1940), corresponsal de La Vanguardia en Oriente Medio desde 1970, decano de los corresponsales de la prensa española, ha escrito en ese tiempo, desde el balcón de su casa en Beirut, más de siete mil crónicas para el periódico barcelonés sobre los ...

Making maps

a visual guide to map design for GIS

Acclaimed for its innovative use of visual material, this book is engaging, clear, and compelling - exactly how an effective map should be. Nearly every page is organized around maps and other figures (many in full color) that illustrate all aspects of map making, including instructive ...

The europeans

a geography of people, culture, and environment

This leading text offers a comprehensive, richly nuanced, and authoritative introduction to European geography. Coverage encompasses the entire region: its physical setting and environment, population and migration, languages and religions, and political organization. Particular attention is given to historic and contemporary features of the diverse ...

Bucólicas

(Églogas)

Sobre el trasfondo de la obra de Teócrito (siglos IV-III a. C.), considerado el padre de la poesía pastoril, Publio Virgilio Marón (70-19 a. C.) trabajó en las Bucólicas, la primera de sus grandes obras, durante tres años (42-39 a. C.). Se trata de diez ...